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Rhode Island Supreme Court Finds Lifer “Civil Death” Law Unconstitutional
Loaded on Sept. 1, 2022
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2022, page 58
Filed under:
U.S. Sentencing Guidelines.
Location:
Rhode Island.
by David M. Reutter
The Supreme Court of Rhode Island held on March 2, 2022, that the state’s civil death statute is “unconstitutional and in clear contravention of the provisions” of the state constitution.
The Court’s ruling was issued in the consolidated appeals of state prisoners Cody-Allen Zab and Jose ...
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